Example sentences of "which [was/were] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | States of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , in the Soviet view , were those that were carrying out major social transformations such as the nationalisation of foreign monopolies , redistribution of land and industrialisation , and which were taking steps to further public education and to reduce poverty and unemployment . |
| 2 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 3 | The Court , and by extension Paris , would become the focus of all Europe , and even for the whole civilized world , for the Emperor , conscious of the huge changes in the speed and ease of travel which were taking place , foresaw an influx of visitors not just from the Old World but also from the New . |
| 4 | The very changes which were taking place in the physical environment appear to have facilitated the transition to a newer rhythm of urban life . |
| 5 | The changes , which were taking place in the economy and society during the period of formative influence on the functionalist style , provide us with a further dimension to consider . |
| 6 | Jehana moved silently to her side , likewise apparently unperturbed by the events which were taking place , and they watched Jotan as he stepped out onto the wooden staging . |
| 7 | Lothar 's biographer in the Gesta makes the point that following Celestine 's death he did not immediately join the cardinals assembled in the Septizonium , but attended first the exequies , or funeral rites , for the dead pope , which were taking place in the Lateran basilica . |
| 8 | The American archives suggest that even in 1954 the British would have been somewhat reassured had they been able to eavesdrop on some of the discussions which were taking place in Washington . |
| 9 | or you 've got ta try and stop it , or you 've got ta get in there and and sort of organize it , take it on your shoulders , and I think this , this is a recognition that erm changes were taking place which were taking peasants beyond the straight moderate programme . |
| 10 | This is the first statement of a theme , the fluted skirt broken by one knee , variations on which were to engage sculptors throughout the classical age ( cf. figs. 80 , 124 , 142 , 159 , 161 , 162 , 190 , 202 ) . |
| 11 | But these were some of the more welcome changes following the end of the Second World War , which were transforming life for people living in the countryside . |
| 12 | ‘ Association ’ — the free and conscious formation of voluntary democratic societies for social defence and improvement — was the magic formula of the liberal era ; through it even the labour movements which were to abandon liberalism were to develop . |
| 13 | Tsutomu Hata , a former Agriculture Minister , had supported moves to dismantle Japan 's ban on foreign rice imports , which were causing dissent at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade [ see also p. 38148 ] , and he was known to favour a reduction in interest rates . |
| 14 | The agreements struck after the stoppage of the previous year had left many loose ends which were causing trouble among stevedores , carters and lightermen . |
| 15 | But the definitive change came on I August 1917 , when the Ministry of Shipping , which had been established by Lloyd George when he became Prime Minister in December 1916 , invited both the union and the Federation to confer with government representatives on the supply of seamen , wage difficulties and on other problems which were causing waste and delay to shipping . |
| 16 | The commissions , which were to recommence work before Jan. 14 , were instructed to report at least once a month to the heads of state who were scheduled to meet again in Rwanda on March 14-15 . |
| 17 | The expectations and hopes of those people and of many others , which were given life by the excellent judgment of the Vice-Chancellor of the High Court on 30 July , were cruelly dashed by the decision of the major City shareholders that the bank could not be reconstructed . |
| 18 | A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils ( which were given responsibility for housing ) . |
| 19 | There 's one final thing , and that is on page fifteen at the bottom , it 's a list of organisations which were given permits for St Michael the Northgate . |
| 20 | They coexisted with the now somewhat depleted Byzantine empire but soon found themselves embroiled in the Crusader invasion at the end of the eleventh century , in the course of which were to emerge Baibars the Mamluk and the celebrated Kurdish warrior known as Salahuddin al-Ayyubi or Saladin . |
| 21 | The presidency of the organization would henceforth be rotated within a three-member presidium , to which were elected Giovanni Malagodi , LI president since 1977 , Otto Lambsdorff , chair of the West German Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) , and Adolfo Suárez , leader of Spain 's Democratic and Social Centre ( CDS ) . |
| 22 | Mayor David Dinkins expressed his sadness over the incident and promised more resources to tackle the hundreds of unlicensed clubs thought to be operating in the city , many of which were violating safety regulations . |
| 23 | Kemptner and Strubig were believed to be held by the Hamadei family , two members of which were serving prison sentences in Germany for terrorist related crimes . |
| 24 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 25 | Freak storms and torrential rains on Sept. 4-7 , 1989 , caused serious flooding in the eastern provinces of Valencia , Alicante , Murcia and Almeria and on the islands of Majorca and Ibiza , parts of which were declared disaster areas . |
| 26 | They were arrested after chaining themselves to cranes which were loading logs on to barges in the port of Kuala Baram . |
| 27 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 28 | In response to these complexities , the original notion of the sociolinguistic variable with variants which were assigned values along a single phonetic dimension was considerably modified . |
| 29 | Here was the bond : it was the provinces , not London society , which were peopling America and it was in the mushrooming towns of industrial England that Nonconformity was strongest . |
| 30 | Through this vehicle there developed over the next decade a growing tendency to become more actively involved with movements which were advocating de-segregation and black civil rights in the Southern States . |